On 16 Jan 2012, at 17:53, address@hidden wrote:
>> Well, the OS X version I have of lilypond I have is version 2.14.2-1. I
>> used to use lilypond on my debian box, so I myself am more accustomed to the
>> CL-based interface. I would hope there was some way of running it that way
>> on OS X (?). I think I may have converted it to 2.14.2 just now, but I'd
>> have to re-download the original and see if there was a version statement in
>> the main.ly file.
>>
>
> The website has great instructions about this for Mac OS X:
>
>http://lilypond.org/macos-x.html
>
> (the section "Running on the command line").
This section might add that a simple way to create this file from the command
line is to enter (^D means <control>D):
cat > lilypond
exec /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"
^D
Quite useful on OS X is to open files using
open -a <application> <files>
Hans